From Story Idea to First Draft

You have a story idea. Not a plot, not a cast, not an outline: an idea that keeps coming back and refuses to become anything. Every planning tool you own assumes you've already turned it into something. This workbook is for the stretch before that.

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What's inside

27 pages of guided exercises, A4, GoodNotes-ready

11 stations: the idea as it is · who is standing in it · the situation · the threat · goal and stakes · engine and emotional core · the people around them · only the backstory that matters · three ways this could go · first pages · Story Brief

A one-page Story Brief to keep open while you draft and hand to the next tool

Three ruled pages for the first five hundred words, plus notes pages

Margin-notes lines on every exercise page

About this tool

From Idea to First Pages walks you through eleven stations, in a deliberate order, from a raw idea to a Story Brief and the first five hundred words of a rough draft. It supplies no answers. Every page is questions and process; what comes out is yours, in your voice, from your idea. Built for thriller writers: the stations on threat, pressure and the clock were designed for this genre, and the rest holds for any story.

AI-assisted: product content, code and listing images are produced with AI tools. Concept, structure and creative direction are my own. The workbook is blank by design; the story in it will be yours

From Story Idea to First Draft

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